UNITED STATES v. FITCH OIL CO.

No. 5-70.

676 F.2d 673 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, on behalf of James Edwards, Secretary of the Department of Energy, Petitioners-Appellees, v. FITCH OIL COMPANY, Jerry S. Fitch, Smith Oil, Inc. and J. C. Smith, Respondents-Appellants.

Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals.

As Corrected April 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Dennis Summers of Summers, Hendrick, Spanos, Phillips & Grant, Atlanta, Ga., and William Spencer of Crutcher, Spencer & Brown, Holly Springs, Miss., for respondents-appellants.

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Glen H. Davidson, U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., R. John Seibert and June Wagoner, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D. C., for petitioners-appellees.

Before INGRAHAM, ESTES and BECKER, Judges.


WILLIAM H. BECKER, Judge.

This is an appeal from judgments and orders of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi granting the petitions of the United States of America on behalf of the Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) to enforce, against Appellants, subpoenas duces tecum for books, records and papers described in the subpoenas.

We conclude that we should affirm the judgments and orders of the District Court.

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